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So the post has now been deleted. Hiding mistakes made like that is a pretty weak maneuver but at least we agree it was not a helpful return to this thread.
It was deleted in the hope that it would head off a tedious and pointless look-at-me sausage fest in the standard style, which it clearly failed to do. Since you have subsequently, admittedly most likely out of a compulsion to make everything about you rather than simple deceit, fibbed repeatedly about what the text contained, here it is again:
It's not just them, although there is a relation. Basically, I've been too depressed to process any applications. I was gearing up to when I got a snotty PM from Life Critic over there complaining about my schtick about Portuguese speakers in this thread. Life Critic, who was uncommonly (although arguably blessedly) silent during MFreitas' attempts to shut down discussions of race, and indeed through the welter of misrepresentation and ghastliness that followed, the awfulness of which inspired same schtick. Life Critic who opened his account on Barbelith with tales of his mate, who was as rinky dink a chink as you ever did see. And, of course, Life Critic, winner of the prize for the second most random use of ethnic slang on Barbelith. Perfectly nice chap, as far as I can tell, but a living nightmare on Barbelith.
At which point, really, my will broke. The thought at that moment that LC's mates coming in was going to be in any way a good thing seemed like a stretchy stretch, but it would be entirely unfair to exclude them and let in other people who would be just as bad. Faced with this dilemma, I sank into despair, and nobody got in. What probably happens next is that at some point I grit my teeth and get back on the arse. I'm thinking about what happens after that, and I suggest you do likewise.
Reproduced because you appear not to have read it, so overpowering was the chorus of ITS ALL ABOUT ME IT IS ALL ABOUT ME going on in the old Life Cranium. So, basically, everything you have said on this page has been based on a totally false premise - that it's all about you, that you are being persecuted, that your friends, who have been individually picked for their Life Critic approved qualities, are being kept off because of their association with you (if only I could, at this point, solve the problem so easily). All self-deception in order to be the story. You are not the story here, and you have, once again, turned a Policy thread into a thread about you. Yes, please tell us what you call a bag of weed. WE ARE INTERESTED.
Meanwhile, back at the actual issue. The TALK ABOUT ME show aside, the basic issue is the same. I am no longer sure that it is a good thing for people who want to join Barbelith to join Barbelith, nor that it is a good thing for people on Barbelith to be given the opportunity to subject new members to themselves. The farrago above has rather supported my anxiety. I was buckling under when Life Critic decided that making it very clear that he and his friends had a very high standard and needed to have that respected if they were to offer their quality (no jokes about not liking Portuguese speakers rinky dink too gay in a bad way de man dem you gonna shoot me Flyboy oh God oh God). I am uncertain of what my duty to Barbelith is. It would be nice to pass this problem on, or to circumvent it, but passing it on would involve competent replacements and modifications to create a functional system - Randy, interested? - and circumventing it involves problems which have already been explained at length.
Bottom line, the technology of Barbelith is broken and will not be fixed. We can work around that to an extent, but doing so involves a series of tradeoffs, and in every case we are working against an inexorable tendency towards total failure. Everything discussed here, in terms of the positive impact on Barbelith, is therefore at best a temporary solution, and further one which presupposes that it can be treated like a non-broken board that is not trending towards failure. Faced with that, maybe we should just talk about ourselves. |
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